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HAIR WAVING COMPOSITIONS
Background of the Invention
The present invention relates to the treatment of
keratinous material. In particular the invention relates
to the waving or straightening of hair.
Keratin is a major constituent of horn, nails, feathers
and mammalian hair, such as wool or human hair. Keratin
consists of long polypeptide chains cross linked to one
another by cystine disulfide linkages, the crosslinkages
conferring structural rigidity on a keratin-containing
material.
Permanent hair deformation, i.e. permanent waving and
permanent straightening, involves rearrangement of the
keratin polypeptide chains.
Hot waving methods employ heat above 140F, frequently as
high as 300F, and the action of steam and alkali. Hot
waving methods have virtually disappeared because they are
too complicated and are excessively damaging to the hair.
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Moreover, hairdressers could not be certain that the
desired results would consistently be obtained with such
methods. Hot waving, therefore, has gradually been
replaced by cold waving.
Permanent hair straightening may be achieved using a hot
metal comb and covering the hair with lipid compounds or
an emulsion. More frequently, straightening gels or
emulsions containing various proportions of strong bases
are used. These permanent hair straightening methods are
irritating to the scalp, and careless handling may cause
hair damage.
In cold permanent waving or straightening, disulfide
crosslinkages in hair keratin are generally ruptured by
using reducing agents. Common reducing agents include
inorganic sulfide, sulfites, hydrosulfites, cyanides,
mercaptans, thioglycolic acid and other compounds.
Sulfydryl groups are formed in place of the disulfide
linkages. The shaping of the hair into a desired
conformation has conventionally been carried out by
contacting the hair with a reducing agent in the form of
liquids, creams or gels while the hair is mechanically
formed into the desired ne~ shape. The reducing
composition is applied to the hair for a sufficient time
to allow shaping to occur via reductive disruption of the
disulfide linkages. Finally, disulfide crosslinkages are
reformed or novel disulfide linkages are created by
applying oxidising or crosslinking agents to the hair,
while maintaining the hair in a desired shape. The final
step of establishing disulfide crosslinkages, which may
be referred to as the neutralising or fixing step, is
important in order to make the new confirmation
permanent, to increase tensile strength, to avoid damage
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to the hair and to remove the sulfhydryl groups as
reactive sites.
Oxidative crosslinking employs a number of typical
chemical oxidising agents or atmospheric oxygen to
convert sulfhydryl groups to the corresponding disulfide.
Hydrogen peroxide, perborate and bromates have been
widely used in permanent hair deformation. Oxidation of
sulfhydryl groups with chemical oxidising agents may be
catalysed by metals. German Patent 1,198,012 discloses
the use of small amounts of alkali metal metavanadates,
i.e. 0.00025% by weight, to catalyse the bromate-based
oxidation of hair.
The oxidative method employing atmospheric oxygen, termed
~'self-neutralising", depends on ait oxidation to destroy
any reducing agent on the hair and to reform disulfide
linkages. This method does not require subsequent
application of a separate neutralising solution to the
hair; self-neutralising waving lotions sometimes include
metal catalysts in addition to a reducing agent. Den
Beste etal., U.S. Patent No. 2,540,980 and Lang et al.,
U.S. Patent No. 4,532,950 disclose addition of manganese
chloride or sulfates of cobalt, copper or iron as
oxidation catalysts to a waving lotion containing a
reducing agent. Wainer, U.S. Patent No. 2,707,~97
discloses incorporation of iron sulfate in a waving
lotion containing citric aci~. Self-neutralising waving
lotions are poorly suited for professional use or for
hair straightening applications and have not gained
consumer acceptance.
~t is also possible to convert sulfhydryl linkages to
disulfide crosslinkages in a non-oxidative manner by
using crosslinking agents such as alkylena dihalides or
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dihalocarboxylic acids as in U.S. Patent No. 2,739,033 or
dimaleimides as in U.S. Patent No. 2,850,351. Speakman,
U.S. Patent No. 2,261,094 discloses the use in permanent
hair waving of polyvalent metals, namely, sulfates of
divalent metals, such as calcium, barium, zinc, copper
and nickel. In practice, when bivalent metal sulfates
disclosed by the Speakman patent are employed, it has
been found desirable to mix such crosslinking reagents
with traditional oxidising agents, such as hydrogen
peroxide. The Speakman patent teaches desirability of
such mixtures to reduce the time of treatment at col. 4,
lines 10-17. Moreover, crosslinkages of bivalent metals
with sulfur atoms have been considered ionic and unstable
by Patterson et al., J. Res. Nat. Bur. Stand., 27:89.
Complexes of dissolved cysteine (reduced cystine) with
molybdenum in aqueous solution in the pH range of 4 to 6
have been described by Spence et al., Inorg. Chem., 2
(1963) 319. Spence et al. observed little complex
formation above pH 6.5.
Many neutralising agents which have been proposed
heretofore are toxic and thus are difficult to employ.
Others are volatile and may be hazardous to use. A
crosslinking reagent is desirable that is not encumbered
by the difficulties of the past but is as effective as
traditional oxidising treatments.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to
provide a c~osslinking composition for forming disulfide
linkages in a keratinous material in which disulfide
linkages have been disrupted and replaced by s~lfhydryl
groups.
It is a further object of the present invention to
provide a product for permanent hair waving or
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straightening comprising a composition for reducing
disulfide bonds to form sulfhydryl groups and the
aforementioned crosslinking composition.
A still further object of this invention is to provide a
method for treating a keratinous material in which
disulfide linkages have been ruptured, which method
includes contacting the keratinous material with the
aforementioned with the aforementioned crosslinking
composition.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided a
crosslinking composition containing a transition metal
oxide compound. The crosslinking composition of the
invention converts sulfhydryl groups to disulfide
crosslinkages in the keratinous material in which
sulfhydryl groups have been previously formed by
rupturing disulfide linkages.
The inventive method for treating a keratinous material
includes a step of contacting the crosslinking
composition containing an effective amount of a
transition metal oxide compound with the keratinous
material in which disulfide linkages have been previously
disrupted.
According to this invention, the crosslinking composition
may be included in a product for permanent hair deforming
such as permanent hair waving or permanent hair
straightening, the product also containing a reducing
composition to effect disruption of disulfide
crosslinkages and formation of sulfhydryl groups.
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While a wide group of keratin-containing materials and
articles made therefrom can be treated in accordance with
the present invention, including animal hair such as
camel hair, mohair, wool, horsehair, cattle hair, hog
bristles and the like; and feathers from birds such as
from chicken, duck, turkey and the like, the invention is
particularly directed to waving or straightening human
hair whether in vivo or in vitro, i.e. in the form of
wigs, The invention is particularly directed to cold
waving and hair straightening systems and will be
discussed in connection therewith. The inventive
composition, product and method can be used
professionally in beauty salons or by unskilled consumers
in their own homes.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Herein is disclosed a crosslinking composition containing
a transition metal oxide compound, useful for forming
disulfide crosslinkages in keratinous material in which
disulfide linkages have heen previously ruptured.
The essential component of the composition of the present
invention is a transition metal oxide compound.
Although the exact nature of the species formed when
reduced hair is contacted with a solution of transition
metal oxide compound is not known and without intending
to be bound by theory it is suggested that a transition
metal ion, oxygen and sulfur form a mixed complex. Such
complexes are stable, unlike ionic bonds of bivalent
metal cations with sulfur as described in, for example,
U.S. Patent 2,261,094 i.e. hair deformation is rendered
permanent and resistant to moisture and alkali.
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Transition metal oxide compounds wherein a transition
metal ion is chosen from groups 4b-6b of the Periodic
Table, such as molybdenum, vanadium and tungsten are
particularly suitable for use in this invention,
molybdenum being most preferred.
The following list is illustrative of the transition
metal oxide compounds employed in this invention,
suppliers indicated in parenthesis:
Ammonium Molybdate, (NH4)6Mo7024 x 4H20, (Aldrich
Chemical Co., Alfa Products, Fisher Scientific)
Ammonium Molybdate VI, (NH4)2MoO4, (Aldrich Chemical Co.,
Alfa Products, Fisher Scientific)
Ammonium Tungstate, (NH4)2W04, (Aldrich Chemical Co.)
Ammonium Vanadate, NH4V03, (Fisher Scientific)
Potassium Tungstate, K2WO4, (Alfa Products)
Sodium Orthovanadate, Na3VO4, (Aldrich Chemical Co.)
Sodium Metavanadate, NaVO3 x nH2O, (Aldrich Chemical Co.)
Sodium Tungstate, Na2WO4, (Aldrich Chemical Co.)
Sodium Molybdate, Na2MoO4, (Aldrich Chemical Co.)
Vanadyl Sulfate, VOSO4 x nH2O (Fisher Scientific)
Potassium Molybdate, K2MoO4, (Alfa Products)
Of course, other transition metal oxides may be employed.
~mmonium molybdate is most preferred due to its
availability and performance.
The transition metal oxide compound is incorporated in
the crosslinking composition of the invention in an
effective amount to crosslink a sufficient amount of
sulfhydryl groups to permanently set the Xeratinous
material. Preferably, the amount of transition metal
oxide compound in the crosslinking composition is about
0.01% to about 10% weight per volume, most preferably
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about 0.5% to about 5%. As used herein the term "%
weight per volume" is intended to mean "grams per 100
millilitres".
The crossliking composition of the invention is useful
whenever it is desirable to render permanent a particular
rearrangement of keratin polypeptide chains and is
particularly useful in products or processes for cold
permanent hair waving or straightening. Advantageously,
the crosslinking composition of the invention is as
effective in forming stable disulfide linkages as
traditional oxidising agents such as hydrogen peroxide or
bromates. Thus, the crosslinking composition of the
invention is effective even in the absence of traditional
oxiding agents.
The crosslinking composition can also contain a wetting
agent or surfactant which is non-reactive with the
crosslinking reagent or the hair to destroy crosslinking
sites. The surfactant can be anionic, such as soaps, and
alkyl sulfates, such as sodium dodecyl sulfate, cationic
such as ~uaternary ammonium compounds; nonionic, such as
glycol esters, glycsrol ester, sorbitan esters,
polyoxyalkylene esters, polyoxyalkylene ethers, and
modified lanolin, as well as amphoteric surfactants. The
surfactant is used in an amount of about 0.1% to about
60%, the amount being sufficient to assist in wetting the
hair with the crosslinking reagent, depending on the
efficiency of the surfactant.
According to the invention, the crosslinking compoæition
may be a part of the product for permanent hair deforming
and the product may be conveniently formulated and
packaged to provide a complete treatment of hair
resulting in permanently waved or straightened hair.
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The product of the invention necessarily contains an
inventive crosslinking composition of the invention and a
separate reducing composition for forming sulfhydryl
groups in place of disulfide crosslinkages.
The reducing agents most commonly used in cold waving
hair lotions for rupturing cysteine linkages are thiols
or mercaptans as well as sulfites and/or bisulfites. A
number of mercaptans can only provide acceptable
efficiency at high pH levels whereas others with a lower
pK and a high ionisation constant can be effective at
lower pH levels. For example, the ammonium salt of
thioglycolic acid can provide acceptable waving
efficiency ~reduction) if the pH of the solution exceeds
9. Other compounds such as thioglycolamides or glycol
thioglycolates, sulfites and/or bisulfites can be used at
neutral or slightly acidic pH. The following are
mercaptans and thiols which have commonly been used in
cold waving lotions: thioglycolic acid or salts thereof,
thiolactic acid, cystein, thioglycerol, thioglycolic
hydrazide, thioglycolamide, glycerol monothioglycolate,
beta-mercapto-propionic acid, N-hydroxyethyl
mercapto-acetamide, N-methyl mercapto- acetamide,
beta-mercapto-propionamide, 2-mercapto- ethanesulfonic
acid, dimercapto-adipic acid, dithiothreitol,
homocysteinethiolactone, cysteine derivatives, and
polythiol derivatives formed by the addition of
cysteamine onto a maleic anhydride-alkylvinylether
copolymer. The sulfites and/or bisulfites which can be
used are those normally used in hair waving such as
sodium and ammonium salts. The amount of the reducing
agents used is that sufficient to rupture a sufficient
number of disulfide bonds for effective hair waving or
hair straightening as would be appreciated by one of
ordinary skill in the art. Preferably, the amount of
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reducing agent employed is between about 1% and about
20%, most preferably between about 7.5% and 11% at a pH
between about 9.3 and about 9.5, the concentration being
adjusted to ~he quality of the hair to be deformed. For
example, bleached hair, which is very porous, brittle and
lacking in disulfide linkages, must be treated with low
concentration of a reducing agent.
Reducing and crosslinking compositions based on the
actives described above can be prepared in various
physical forms including lotions, solutions, creams,
gels, aerosols and dry forms.
By the breaking of the disulfide bonds to form free
sulfhydryl groups pendant on the hair, the hair can be
formed or shaped as desired such as by winding on rollers
or pins, or combed out as in the case of hair
straightening. The breaking of the disulfide bond is
generally accomplished in accordance with the usual
practice, which involves applying the reducing agent to
the hair wound on curlers. Heat can be provided at this
point.
The deformed hair, while curled or straightened, is then
wetted with the crosslinking composition of the invention
in water or a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or base
such as lotion or cream, preferably buffered. The
crosslinking composition is preferably water-soluble or
made water soluble by known techniques. The carriers are
of known types and are similar to those presently in use
in waving and neutralising compositions. The water or
carrier desirably holds the crosslin~ing reagent in
contact with the hair for a period of time sufficient to
effect permanent setting of the hair. The crosslinking
composition is applied under conditions conducive to
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effective crosslinking. A pH of between about 6 and
about 9 (less than that which would cause permanent
breakdown of the hair protein) has been found effective
for that purpose using the composition of the invention.
Reducing compositions based on the actives described
above can be prepared in various physical forms including
lotions, solutions, creams, gels, aerosols and dry forms.
Any or a combination of alkali metal phosphates,
acetates, borates and the like which are non-reactive
with the crosslinking reagent and cannot destroy
crosslinking sites, can be used to maintain the pH of the
hair treated with the crosslinking composition within the
range specified. Any pH effects caused by the reducing
agent can be offset by thorough washing of the hair with
water prior to the application of the crosslinking
composition.
The hair is treated for a period of time sufficient to
effect the crosslinking to provide the desired permanent
shape desired and, in some instances, the desired tensile
strength increase. Illustrative times include from about
3 minutes to any time practical that avoids deterioration
of the hair, though lesser times can be used i8 lesser
effect on the hair is desired.
The crosslinking reagent i8 preferably applied in aqueous
solution at a temperature between the ranges of about
10C and 93C. Time of treatment may vary within wide
limits depending on the temperature of the solution, the
particular reducing and crosslinking agents used, and the
nature of the keratinous material being treated.
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The hair may be further treated with additional
neutralising agents and crosslinkin~ reagents in order to
oxidise any free sulfhydryl groups to disulfide lin~ages
as would be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the
art. The oxidising or neutralising chemicals used can be
of the oxidising agents capable of restoring the
disulfide linkages in the hair keratin during the
resetting state, such as aqueous solution of hydrogen
peroxide, alkali metal bromates, alkali metal perborates,
urea hydrogen peroxide, sodium sesquicarbonate, etc.
Rinsing alone with water may restore the broken linkages
as well, but it will be much slower. However, as pointed
out above the crosslinking compositions of the invention
are effective in the absence of peroxygen or bxomate
oxidising agents.
The permanent hair deforming product of the invention can
be designed for professional as well as home application.
The product and its compositions can contain ingredients
normal to such compositions. Fragrance compounds,
colouring agents, thickening agents, gelling agents,
surfactants, conditioning agents, such as amino acids,
proteins, and silicones, mineral oils and the like ~ay be
added to compositions of this invention in amounts
conventionally used in hair waving and straightening
compositions. Any compound which will react with the
crosslinking reagent to remove or neutralise reactive
sites therecn is preferably avoided. These ingredients
are fully outlined in The Science of Hair Care, edited by
Charles Zviak, Vol. 7 of a series entitled Dermatology,
Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1986, which is incorporated herein
by reference.
The invention will now be further described with
reference to the following examples. It should be
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understood that the present invention in its broadest
aspect is not necessarily limited to the Examples.
EXAMPLE 1
Swatches (40 milligrams; 8.1 inches in length) of
European brown Caucasian hair were wrapped around curling
rods and treated with various commercially available
permanent wave products according to manufacturers'
instructions. All products tested utilise thioglycolate
in a reducing composition and hydrogen peroxide in a
neutralising composition of the hair. Typical treatment
time for a neutralisation step was 5 to 10 minutes.
Following the treatment, the standard evaluation
procedure was employed as follows:
The swatches were unrolled from curlers, straightened by
hand, trimmed to length of 7 inches and hung to dry for
24 hours. The swathces were then suspended for 2 hours
in a 4-litre beaker containing 2 drops of 29% sodium
lauryl sulfate in 4 litres of cold tap water. The
swatches were hung to dry for 24 hours and the final dry
curl length was measured. Al} measurements were done
from the edge of the tape.
Data that was generated is summarised in Table I.
products tested were ranked per final dry curl length.
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TABLE I
Final Dry Curl
Product Length (inches)
LOREALR
LILTR 5.B - 6.0
C1AIROL PROFESSIONAL
REVLONR
TONIR 6.1 - 6.5
Commercial formulations employing hydrogen peroxide
resulted in final dry curl length of about 5.8 inches to
about 6.5 inches.
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EXAMPLE II
Swatches (40 milligrams; 8.1 inches in length) of
European brown Caucasian hair were wrapped around curling
rods and treated with commercially available
thioglycolate waving lotion LOREALR (normal hair) for 20
minutes to rupture the disulfide crosslinkages. The
swatches were then rinsed for 2 minutes with running tap
water and immersed in agueous solutions of various
neutralising agents at room temperature.
Final dry curl length of the swatches was evaluated
according to the standard procedure described in Example
I. Data that was generated is summarised in TableII.
TABLE II
Sample # Neutralisation Neutralisation Final Dry
Aaent Time (minutes~ Curl Length
(inches)
1 Water 2 6.4
2 2% Hydrogen 5 5.7
Peroxide
3 5% Ammonium 5 5.9
Molybdate
At room temperature, final dry curl length obtained with
ammonium molybdate was equal, within experimental error,
to final dry curl length obtained with hydrogen peroxide
and significantly better than the final dry curl length
obtained if a neutralising agent is omitted (sample 1).
The final dry curl length ~5.9 inches) in 5 minutes with
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ammonium molybdate solution was within the range of 5.8
to 6.5 inches obtained in Example I with commercial
products.
EXAMPLE III
Swatches (40 milligrams; 8.1 inches in length) of
European brown Caucasian hair were wrapped around curling
rods and treated with commercially available
thioglycolate waving lotion LOREALR (normal hair) for 20
minutes to rupture the diulfide crosslinkages. The
swatches were then rinsed for 2 minutes with running tap
water and immersed at room temperature in aqueous
solutions of ammonium molybdate at various concentrations
and for various lengths of time as indicated in Table
III.
Hair swatches were evaluated for final curl length
according to the standard procedure described in Example
I. Data that was generated is summarized in Table III.
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TABLE III
Sample Ammonium Neutralization Final Dry
# Molybdate Time Curl Length
Concentration --------------- (inches
1 0.05% 20 minutes 5.9
2 0.5% 20 minut~s 6.1
3 5.0% 20 minutes 5.9
4 0.05% 20 hours 4.1
0.5% 20 hours 4.0
6 5.0% 20 hours 4.0
Final dry curl was independent of concentration of
ammonium molybdate. A longer neutralization period
improved final dry curl length, perhaps representing
effect of prolonged diffusion of ammonium molybdate into
the hair fiber.
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EX~ PLE_IV
Swatches (40 milligrams; 8.1 inches in length) of
European brown Caucasian hair were wrapped around curling
rods and reduced with commercially available
thioglycolate waving lotion LOREA * (normal hair) for 20
minutes to rupture the disulfide crosslinkages. The
swatches were then rinsed for 2 minutes with running tap
water, followed by a rinse with aqueous solutions of
ammonium molybdate at various concentrations as indicated
in Table IV. The swatches were then placed in a bag and
heated in a water bath at about 50C for 20 minutes.
Hair swatches were evaluated for final dry curl length
according to the standard procedure described in Example
I. Data that was generated is summarized in Table IV.
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TABLæ IV
Sample ~ Ammonium MolybdateFinal Dry Curl
(% Concentration)Lenath (inches)
1 0.05 5.1
2 0.5 5.0
3 5~0 4~8
Application of heat in neutralization step improved
performance of ammonium molybdate when compared to
samples 1, 2 and 3 of Example III.
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Reduced hair treated with ammonium molybdate was studied
using atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and
photoelectron spectroscopy (PES).
Hair swatches (0.5g) were reduced with LOREALR, rinsed
with tap water and immersed in ammonium molybdate for 72
hours. Other hair swatches, used as control, were
reduced with LOREALR, rinsed with tap water, neutralized
according to LOREALR instructions with hydrogen peroxide
for 10 minutes and thereafter aged with ammonium
molybdate treated samples. After 72 hours all swatches
were rinsed with tap water and allowed to air-dry. The
swatches were anaylyzed using AAS and PES.
AAS analysis detected no molybdenum in the control
sample. 0.4~ ~3600 ppm) of molybdenum was absorbed in
molybdenum treated samples.
PES confirmed that molybdenum was present in the
molybdenum-treated sample and evenly dispersed throughout
the hair sample.
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EX~MP~ VI
Swatches (40 mg, 8.1 inches in length) of European brown
Caucasian hair were wrapped around curlers and reduced
with 0.6N thioglycolic acid solution, adjusted to pH 9.4
with concentrated ammonium hydroxide. The reduction was
performed at room temperature for 20 minutes. After a
rinse with warm tap water 37C), the hair swatches were
rinsed with a neutralizing candidate and allowed to react
for 20 minutes at either room temperature or 50C. A
warm rinse followed the neutralization step. Final dry
curl length of the hair swatches was evaluated using the
standard procedure described in Example I.
Data that was generated is summarized in Table VI.
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TABLE Vl
Neutralization Aaent Final D~y Curl ~enath (Inches)
Control1 5.5 + 0.1
Ammonium molybdate 5.2
Sodium molybdate 5.3
Potassium molybdate 5.4
Vanadyl sulfate 5.3 + 0.3
Ammonium vanadate 4.8 + 0.4
Sodium metavanadate 5.1 + 0.1
Sodium orthovanadate 4.5 + 0,6
Potassium tungstate 4.6
1Combination of H20 and H202 treatments at 50C and at
room temperature.
Transition metal oxide compounds are equal to or better
than water and/or hydrogen peroxide when used as
neutralizing agents for reduced hair keratin.
The foregoing description and Examples illustrate
selected embodiments of the present invention and in
light thereof variations and modifications will be
suqgested to one skilled in the art, all which are in the
spirit and purview of this invention.
